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Living with ‘AI anxiety’

By Grant Blashki

A patient said to me the other day, half-smiling but clearly unsettled: “I think I’ve got anxiety about AI.” They weren’t having a panic attack or describing clinical anxiety. What they were expressing was a persistent sense of unease that many of us are feeling right now.

A sense that the world is changing very quickly, that the systems we live within are being redesigned around us and that most of us don’t feel particularly consulted or prepared for a life increasingly immersed in artificial intelligence (AI).

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"At this moment in history, AI anxiety is not irrational. It reflects rapid change intersecting with our work, education, relationships and identity. Neither denial nor panic is helpful. Engagement, understanding and our shared responsibility are."
Grant Blashki

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